In a major Berlin sale, the Weinstein Co. has bought U.S. rights to Alan Turing drama “The Imitation Game,” with Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley starring, for $7 million.

Morten Tyldum (“Headhunters”) directed the project, based on the life story of crypotgrapher and mathematician Turing, who cracked the German “Enigma Code” during WWII and was later prosecuted by the British government in the early 1950s for being a homosexual.

Warner Bros. originally developed the project after Graham Moore’s script landed at the top of the 2011 Black List. “The Imitation Game” is based on the biography “Alan Turing: The Enigma” by Andrew Hodges.

In September at the Toronto Film Festival, TWC also paid $7 million for U.S. rights to John Carney’s“Can a Song Save Your Life?,” which also stars Knightley.

Erm the original poster actually included Benedict Cumberbatch in their reasons why a movie will be great, they just referred to him as “bc” (“bc mark strong and matt goode”) don’t worry, no one is going to overlook BC. But Mark Strong, Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode are all fantastic actors too. The whole cast seems stellar and I think we’re so lucky that this incredibly important story about this amazing man is going to be told by these talented people.